Qualified ERCES/BDA contractors measure P25 and analog FM coverage, record the equipment checks, and leave the site with the signed inspection report—one offline Android workflow and a receiver calibrated per serial and per band.
$4,995 plus tax and shipping · Pre-orders ship December 1, 2026; orders placed after November 15 ship within 4 weeks · Optional $1,295/yr Assurance Renewal after year one — not charged today
Release 1.0Offline field workflow
Release 1.0Customer portal
In serviceProduction calibration bench
Kit shown as a production-design render with a demo project on a fictional floor plan; the exact kit configuration is confirmed on your order acknowledgment.
Most ERCES field days are either an inspection visit to an installed system or a coverage survey before one goes in. The kit is organized around those two jobs, not around a spectrum display.
Return to the existing building project, start a new survey visit, capture the RF measurements the inspection plan calls for, and document the equipment checks. Battery-test readings, donor-antenna observations, alarm and supervisory checks, photos, remarks, and signatures come together in one organized inspection report.
How the inspection visit worksDocument existing radio coverage before a BDA is designed or installed. Import the floor plans, define grids and critical locations, collect calibrated measurements, and share clear findings for project planning and AHJ review.
How the survey loop worksThe ERCES inspection form in the app follows the sections of a standard public-safety BDA/DAS test report. RF evidence comes from the kit; equipment checks are entered by the technician on the same tablet.
Reuse the floor plans, grids, critical points, and channels from the original project; add a new survey visit for this year's measurements. Several inspections live under one project, typically one per year.
Measure the locations the inspection plan requires with the calibrated receiver. The grid and critical-area items (15a/15c) can be filled from the tested locations, with every failed location named and every untested location counted—never hidden.
Record battery load-test results for the head end and each fiber remote, donor-antenna values at commissioning versus today, active-component and isolation checks, alarm and supervisory signals, and deficiencies—with photos attached to the visit.
Collect technician and building-representative signatures on the tablet, add remarks and recommendations, and generate the PDF with the grid results, survey notes, and photo appendices for owner and AHJ review.
What the kit does, and what it does not. Fast Radio Survey combines supported RF measurements with technician-entered inspection records. Battery load testing, physical inspections of antennas and enclosures, isolation and uplink tests, and other required procedures use the appropriate external equipment; the app records their results. Inspection scope and accepted methods remain subject to the applicable requirements and the AHJ. Year-to-year comparison is by the visit records kept in the project and the commissioning-versus-current table; the app does not compute historical deltas. The measurement limits described in the specifications and FAQ apply to inspection visits as they do to surveys.
The survey loop keeps the whole job on one tablet: prepare the plan, collect valid point measurements, review status, and produce the report while the site is still in front of you. The same loop records the RF evidence on an inspection visit.
Import an image, selected PDF pages, or floor-plan imagery from a compatible iBwave .ibwc export (beta). Calibrate scale on the tablet.
Draw and divide test grids, mark critical points, select the P25 or analog FM channel—or a group of control channels measured in one pass—and set project-specific thresholds.
Capture RSSI, adjacent-spectrum S/N, frame-sync FBER, and a derived DAQ estimate. Add comments, dictated notes, and photos.
Review project-configured pass/fail status, preview annotated reports, and share them as PDF or Word (image-based pages) from the tablet.
Fast Radio Survey is intentionally focused on the repeatable P25 and analog FM downlink work that fills the day—on VHF, UHF, 700 and 800 MHz—annual inspection visits where the local method permits, pre-installation surveys, optimization, punch lists, troubleshooting, and internal QA.
Field collection and report generation stay on the Android tablet. A building’s dead zone does not become a workflow dead end.
Configure thresholds for area and critical points, then re-grade existing readings when project criteria change.
Keep readings, locations, comments, photos, survey visits, and inspection records with the building project that produced them—this year's visit next to last year's.
Use the swept analyzer and waterfall as an indicative troubleshooting aid, with markers, presets, RBW/VBW, and report snapshots.
When a nearby carrier is holding the receiver’s gain down, the capture screen says “Strong nearby signal” and tags the readings taken under it. You can capture only between an intermittent neighbour’s transmissions, or let the app name the carriers it sees and try the receiver’s IF window—kept only when the measured S/N improves. Every such reading carries its tag into the report, so the record shows how it was taken.
DEMO REPORT
Premium scanner platforms remain the right tool for broad multi-technology validation and formal workflows that demand them. Fast Radio Survey is built as the accessible, every-crew tool for inspection visits and focused P25 survey work.
Release 1.0 covers the field workflow and the customer portal; the automated production-calibration bench is in service. Every receiver is calibrated per serial and per band on that bench, and no receiver ships until its serial has passed it. DMR and LTE Band 14 are in development and are listed as such, not sold.
Your tablet does the job on site. The cloud adds continuity; it does not become a field dependency.
The kit is a focused P25 and analog FM downlink instrument with a calibrated 8-bit receiver. The specifications below disclose its limits in full; this is what they mean on a job.
Every figure below is release 1.0 as it ships—measurement scope, supported hardware, formats, and default grading—verified against the app before publication.
The 95% general-area and 99% critical-area coverage values align with the model-code criteria in 2024 IFC §510.4.1 and 2022 NFPA 1225 §§18.8.3–18.8.4. The adopted code edition, local amendments, test methods, and AHJ-approved project requirements control. S/N is measured against this receiver's own noise floor: on sites with strong neighbouring channels the 20 dB default is reachable only above about −88 dBm RSSI, so plan the test method with that in mind rather than lowering the criterion.
RSSI is corrected by the receiver's signed calibration profile for the band and tuner gain in use; a reading outside that scope is flagged and reported as uncalibrated rather than silently corrected. Specifications describe the current release; the exact production kit configuration is confirmed on your order acknowledgment.
Buy a complete kit outright from the first production batch. Each receiver ships only after its serial passes the production calibration process—that is why there is a stated lead time, not a waitlist.
No surprise charges. $4,995 plus tax and shipping today; nothing else is charged automatically.
No forced cloud dependency. Core field collection and reporting remain offline-first.
No implied approval. Acceptance methods remain subject to project requirements and the AHJ.
Complete first-production kit. Plus tax and shipping.
What ships in the kit
Each receiver ships only after its serial passes the production calibration process. Pre-orders ship December 1, 2026; orders placed after November 15 ship within 4 weeks of order. Optional Assurance Renewal after year one: $1,295 per active kit/year; not enrolled or charged at purchase.
Questions about fit, timing, fleet quantities, or using your own tablet? Email us.
Contact Fast Radio SurveyThe Android field workflow, the customer-portal backend—activation-code licensing, signed calibration profiles, and evidence uploads—and the automated production-calibration bench are built and in service. Each receiver is calibrated per serial and per band, and no receiver ships until its serial passes it. That is part of the stated lead time.
Yes, for the RF evidence and the inspection record. The kit measures the locations the inspection plan calls for, and the ERCES inspection form in the app records the equipment checks—batteries, donor antenna, active components, alarm monitoring—along with photos, remarks, and signatures, then generates the report. Battery load tests, physical inspections, and isolation or uplink tests are performed with the appropriate external equipment and procedures; the app records their results. Whether the kit's measurements are accepted for a given inspection depends on the applicable requirements and the AHJ.
Not automatically. Each visit's readings are kept as a separate survey under the building project, and the inspection form carries a commissioning-versus-current table for the donor antenna, so the history is there to review. The app does not yet compute year-over-year deltas or carry last year's answers into a new inspection.
No. Fast Radio Survey is a focused complement for qualified teams doing annual inspection visits where the local method permits, pre-installation surveys, P25 downlink pre-tests, optimization, punch-list work, troubleshooting, and internal QA. Broad multi-technology and formal acceptance workflows may still call for a premium scanner platform. The practical measurement difference is sensitivity: the kit's 8-bit receiver has a higher noise floor on sites with strong neighbouring channels, so its S/N reads lower than a scanner's on weak signals there; RSSI, FBER, and DAQ are unaffected. The app flags those readings, can measure between an intermittent neighbour’s transmissions, and names the carrier responsible so the fix can be found at the source.
On VHF, UHF (including T-band), 700 and 800 MHz, the app reports calibrated channel-integrated RSSI, an adjacent-spectrum S/N estimate, P25 Phase 1 frame-sync FBER (C4FM or CQPSK/LSM simulcast, detected automatically), and a derived DAQ estimate; analog FM channels report RSSI and S/N. That covers Phase 1 systems and the control channels of Phase 2 TDMA systems; Phase 2 traffic channels report RSSI and S/N only. It does not claim true co-channel SINR, full-channel payload BER, or audio decode. S/N is reported against the kit's own noise floor, so on weak signals at sites with strong neighbouring channels it reads lower than a scanner-grade receiver would; FBER and DAQ are unaffected until S/N falls below roughly 8–10 dB. It also decodes the NAC and frame type from the P25 Network ID, so the record shows which system was measured and whether the channel was carrying control or voice frames.
No. Requirements and permitted methods vary by jurisdiction and project. Qualified users remain responsible for the test method, equipment choice, documentation, and AHJ coordination.
First production kits ship December 1, 2026. Orders placed after November 15 ship within 4 weeks of order. Your order acknowledgment states the ship window; if we cannot meet it, you may accept the delay or cancel for a full refund.
Yes. You may cancel for a full refund to the original payment method any time before your kit ships. After delivery, returns are handled under the purchase terms and warranty.
A receiver kit for teams that already own a supported tablet is available on request at $4,495. Supported devices are the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Lite and Galaxy Tab S9 FE; other Android tablets are not validated. Contact us with your device model and quantity.
An optional continuation of updates, support, annual recalibration, and portal service after the included first year. The two measurement technologies in development—DMR and FirstNet LTE Band 14—are delivered to kits with active assurance as each completes validation. It is not enrolled or charged at purchase; nothing renews automatically.
